Stanley Webber (Toby Jones) is the only lodger at Meg (Zoë Wanamaker) and Petey Boles’ (Peter Wight) sleepy seaside boarding house. The unsettling arrival of enigmatic strangers Goldberg (Stephen Mangan) and McCann (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) disrupts the humdrum lives of the inhabitants and their friend Lulu (Pearl Mackie), and mundanity soon becomes menace when a seemingly innocent birthday party turns into a disturbing nightmare. Truth and alliances hastily shift in Pinter's landmark play about the absurd terrors of the everyday.

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Toby Jones

TOBY JONES British Actor Toby Jones is known for his roles both in the theatre and on screen. This year Toby can be seen in French comedy film Naked Normandy for Philippe le Gay, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Lionsgate’s World War One drama Journey’s End. Towards the end of last year Toby starred in a further three films including - Universal Pictures’ crime drama The Snowman, psychological indie thriller, Kaleidoscope, and Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or nominated film, Happy End. Toby also reprised his BAFTA-nominated role in the third and final season of the award-winning comedy series Detectorists, written by and co-starring Mackenzie Crook. Toby's other works include ‎Infamous, where Toby played ‘Truman Capote’ for which he won Best British Actor at the London Film Critics Circle Awards. In 2011, Toby starred in the Oscar-nominated adaptation of John le Carre’s classic crime novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the year after, Toby garnered huge critical acclaim for his performance as Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO/BBC television movie The Girl, for which he received a BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy nomination. That year also saw Toby play the lead in Peter Strickland’s multi award-winning film Berberian Sound Studio. In 2014, Toby starred as the lead in the BBC Two BAFTA winning drama Marvellous, and the following year in Matteo Garrone’s fantasy horror, Tale Of Tales.

Further credits include: Atomic Blonde, Sherlock, Dad’s Army, The Secret Agent, The Witness For The Prosecution, Morgan, Wayward Pines, Capital, The Man Who Knew Infinity, The Hunger Games series, the Harry Potter series, Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Leave to Remain, Andrew Kotting’s By Ourselves, My Week With Marilyn, The Adventures Of Tintin, Frost/Nixon, W and The Painted Veil.

Stephen Mangan

STEPHEN MANGAN is a stage, film, television and voice actor. After graduating from Cambridge University and then RADA, Stephen began his acting career in the theatre. In 2008 he starred in The Norman Conquests at The Old Vic and then on Broadway. Stephen was nominated for a Tony Award and the play won Best Revival. Other theatre credits include: Birthday, The People Are Friendly (Royal Court Theatre), Jeeves and Wooster (Duke of York’s Theatre), Hayfever (Savoy Theatre), Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC) and Rules For Living (National Theatre).

Stephen has an extensive list of television credits. He plays the lead role of Sean Lincoln in the comedy series Episodes, opposite Tamsin Greig and Matt LeBlanc; Series 5 is to be broadcast this year. This year he can also be seen starring in the new comedy series Bliss for Sky Atlantic, Hang Ups for Channel 4 and Abi Morgan’s new BBC1/AMC drama The Split. Previous TV credits include the BAFTA-winning British sitcom Green Wing, Free Agents, Dirk Gently, in which he played the title role, and Houdini & Doyle.

Zoë Wanamaker

ZOË WANAMAKER CBE The multi-award-winning Zoë Wanamaker CBE is one of the most acclaimed actresses of her generation, with a career that spans both stage and screen. She is a four-time Tony Award nominee, and a nine-time Olivier Award nominee, winning the Best Actress Award twice for Electra and Once In A Lifetime. Her career has taken her from the RSC to the National Theatre via Broadway, the Royal Court, the West End and the Donmar Warehouse. Her varied television career has included the much-loved BBC sitcom My Family, along with Poirot and Mr. Selfridge. She received a BAFTA nomination for her role in the film Wilde, with other film credits including Harry Potter and My Week With Marilyn. Zoë will be appearing in the Sky/Amazon collaboration ‘Britannia’ (2017) as Queen Antedia and in Girlfriends for ITV.

Pearl Mackie

PEARL MACKIE recently starred opposite Peter Capaldi in the BBC’s beloved sci-fi series Doctor Who as the Doctor’s companion ‘Bill Potts’. Pearl’s casting was announced in the original short film Friend from the Future, written by show runner Steven Moffat, and received a worldwide YouTube premiere on 23 April 2016. Also starring Matt Lucas and Michelle Gomez, the tenth series of the globally popular show premiered in April 2017 to critical acclaim.

From 2015-6, Pearl appeared in the National Theatre’s Olivier and Tony award-winning production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time. She has also starred as ‘Nina’ in Theatre503’s 2012 play Only Human, co-starred in the European premiere of Aurin Squire’s Obama-ology at the Finborough Theatre, and played ‘Helen of Troy’ in The Helen Project at The Face to Face Festival. In 2013, Pearl appeared alongside Martin Freeman, Michael Socha and Maxine Peake in the comedy film Svengali, directed by John Hardwick.

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

TOM VAUGHAN-LAWLOR trained at RADA.

Theatre includes: The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock, Translation (National Theatre); Howie the Rookie (Barbican London/ BAM NY); Our Few and Evil Days, The Rivals, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Three Sisters, Saved, The School for Scandal, The Playboy of the Western World (Abbey Theatre); 55 Days (Hampstead Theatre); All My Sons (West End); Molly Sweeney (Curve Leicester); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin); The Lady from the Sea (Birmingham Rep); Henry V (Royal Exchange Manchester); The Field (Tricycle Theatre); and The Lime Tree Bower (Young Vic).

Film includes: Avengers: Infinity War, The Cured, Maze, Daphne, The Infiltrator, The Secret Scripture, Becoming Jane, and A Tiger's Tale.

Awards include: Irish Times Best Actor Award for Howie the Rookie; Irish Times Best Actor Award for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Ian Charleson commendation for Henry V; and the Irish Film and Television Best Actor Award for Love / Hate.

Creative Team

Ian Rickson

IAN RICKSON Ian was Artistic Director at the Royal Court from 1998 to 2006, during which time he directed Krapp’s Last Tape, The Winterling, Alice Trilogy, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Fallout, The Night Heron, Boy Gets Girl, Mouth to Mouth (also in the West End), Dublin Carol, The Weir (also in the West End and on Broadway), The Lights, Pale Horse and Mojo (also at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago), Ashes & Sand, Some Voices and Killers. His last production for the Royal Court, The Seagull, transferred to Broadway. Other theatre includes Against (The Almeida), The Goat (West End), The Nest (Lyric, Belfast and Young Vic), Evening At The Talkhouse (NT), The Red Lion ((NT), The River (Broadway), Electra (Old Vic), Mojo (West End), Old Times (West End), The River (Royal Court), Hamlet (Young Vic), Jerusalem (Royal Court, West End and Broadway), Betrayal (Comedy Theatre), The Children’s Hour (Comedy Theatre), The Hothouse and The Day I Stood Still (NT), Parlour Song (Almeida), Hedda Gabler (Roundabout Theatre, New York), The House of Yes (Gate) and Me & My Friend (Chichester Festival Theatre). Film includes: Fallout, Krapp’s Last Tape and The Clear Road Ahead. Radio; In Therapy (Radio 4).

Television: Ballet films with Will Tuckett: Duet and Sandman. Installation Pieces: Castle Belsay The Coffin of a Servant’s Journey and for Opera North Eurydice, She So Beloved. The décors from their puppet films Dormitorium is currently on international touring exhibition.

On Deciphering The Pharmacist’s Prescription For Lip-Reading Puppets - a recent retrospective of their work at MoMA in New York, then transferred to The Eye in Amsterdam, to CCCB in Barcelona and presently La Casa Encendida in Madrid.

Hugh Vanstone

HUGH VANSTONE has designed the lighting for over 200 productions and worked for most of the UK’s national companies and extensively on Broadway. He has received many awards for his work including three Olivier Awards, a Tony and a Molière.

He is an associate artist at The Old Vic theatre where he has recently lit: Art, No’s Knife, Groundhog Day (and Broadway), The Caretaker, The Master Builder and Future Conditional.

Stephen Warbeck

STEPHEN WARBECK has written extensively for theatre, including scores for: Common, The Plough and the Stars, Evening at the Talk House, The Red Lion, The Silver Tassie, This House, The Veil, Season’s Greetings, Welcome to Thebes, The Power of Yes, Mrs Affleck, The Hothouse, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Day I Stood Still, An Inspector Calls, Machinal, Roots, The Magic Olympical Games and At Our Table (National Theatre); Junkyard (Headlong Productions at Bristol Old Vic, Theatr Clwyd and Rose Theatre Kingston); Temple, Proof, To the Green Fields Beyond (Donmar Warehouse); Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies (RSC in West End/Broadway); Alice in Wonderland, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, The White Devil, The Taming of the Shrew, The Cherry Orchard, Cymbeline (RSC); The River and Jerusalem (Royal Court/West End/Broadway); Haunted Child, The Winterling, Alice Trilogy, Boy Gets Girl, The Night Heron, Mouth to Mouth, Dublin Carol, The Lights, Harry and Me, Pale Horse, Rat in the Skull, Mojo, Simpatico, The Editing Process, The Kitchen, Blood, Greenland, Bloody Poetry, Built on Sand (Royal Court); Measure for Measure, When the Rain Stops Falling, Parlour Song, Cloud Nine, Dying for It (Almeida Theatre); The Tempest, Richard II, Much Ado About Nothing, A New World, As You Like It, Othello, Pericles (Shakespeare’s Globe); Old Times, Uncle Vanya, Betrayal, Death and the Maiden, The Children’s Hour, Swimming with Sharks, In Celebration (West End); Bingo (Chichester Festival Theatre/Young Vic); Jean la Chance (Théâtre des Treize Vents); as well as music for many other plays. He has written a ballet score, Peter Pan, for Northern Ballet.

Film scores include The Children Act, Making Noise Quietly,The Time Of Their Lives, Hampstead, India In a Day, The Journey, Le Secret des Banquises, Mon Roi, Seve, Yellow Bird, Keeping Rosy, Jadoo, La Marche, Polisse, There Be Dragons, Killing Bono, Un Balcon sur la Mer, Skellig, Princess Ka’iulani, The Other Man, Freakdog, Machan, French Film, The Hessen Affair, The Box Collector, Miguel & William, Flawless, Cargo, Travaux, Proof, Oyster Farmer, On a Clear Day, Pour le Plaisir, Two Brothers, The Alzheimer Case, Love’s Brother, Mystics, Secret Passage, Deseo, Charlotte Gray, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Birthday Girl, Gabriel and Me, Billy Elliot, Quills, Very Annie Mary, Mystery Men, Fanny and Elvis, Shakespeare in Love (winning an Academy Award), Mrs Brown, My Son the Fanatic, O Mary This London and Sister My Sister. TV scores include The Dresser, Fungus the Bogeyman, Indian Summers series 1 and 2, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 (Hollow Crown season, for which he won a BAFTA), A Young Doctor’s Notebook series 1 and 2, Just William and Fallout. He also writes music for his band the hKippers.

Simon is the recipient of many awards including the Oliver for Best Sound for Matilda the Musical. He has been nominated for an Olivier three times and a Tony award twice.

Simon is a fellow of the Guildhall School, an associate artist for the Old Vic, Kneehigh Theatre, is part of Emma’s Rice’s creative cabinet at the Globe and is part of Emma’s new movement – Wise Children.

Sonia Friedman Productions

SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS (SFP) is a West End and Broadway production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions in London and New York.

Since 1990, SFP has developed, initiated and produced over 160 new productions and together they have won a staggering 44 Olivier Awards including a record-breaking 14 at the 2014 Awards. This year, SFP won 9 Olivier Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the most awards ever received by a single production in Oliviers’ history. The company has also won 18 Tonys and 2 BAFTAs.

This year, Sonia Friedman OBE was awarded 'Producer of the Year' at the Stage Awards for the third year in a row as well as taking the number one spot in 'The Stage 100', becoming the first number one in the history of the compilation not to own or operate West End theatres and the first solo woman for almost 20 years.

West End and Broadway productions include: the UK premiere of The Book of Mormon, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the UK premiere of Dreamgirls, Ink, Hamlet starring Andrew Scott, 1984 at the Hudson Theatre, New York, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, The Ferryman Royal Court and Gielgud, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Travesties, The Glass Menagerie, Nice Fish, A Christmas Carol, Funny Girl West End and UK tour, Farinelli and The King, Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch, 1984, Sunny Afternoon West End and UK tour, Bend It Like Beckham, The Nether, The River, Electra, King Charles III, Shakespeare in Love, Ghosts, Mojo, Chimerica, Merrily We Roll Along, Old Times, Twelfth Night and Richard III, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Sunshine Boys, Hay Fever, Absent Friends, Top Girls, Betrayal, Much Ado About Nothing, Clybourne Park, The Children’s Hour, A Flea in Her Ear, La Bête, All My Sons, Private Lives, Jerusalem, A Little Night Music, Legally Blonde, Othello, Arcadia, The Mountaintop, The Norman Conquests, A View From the Bridge, Dancing at Lughnasa, Maria Friedman: Re-Arranged, La Cage aux Folles, No Man’s Land, The Seagull, Under the Blue Sky, That Face, Dealer’s Choice, Hergés Adventures of Tintin, In Celebration, Boeing-Boeing, The Dumb Waiter, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Love Song, Faith Healer, Bent, Eh Joe, Donkeys’ Years, Otherwise Engaged, Celebration, Shoot the Crow, As You Like It, The Home Place, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, By the Bog of Cats, The Woman in White, Guantanamo: ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’, Endgame, Jumpers, See You Next Tuesday, Hitchcock Blonde, Absolutely! {Perhaps}, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Ragtime, Macbeth, What the Night Is For, Afterplay, Up for Grabs, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Noises Off, On an Average Day, A Servant to Two Masters, Port Authority, Spoonface Steinberg and Speed-The-Plow.

Forthcoming productions include: Farinelli and the King starring Mark Rylance at the Belasco Theater, New York, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Lyric Theatre, New York, and Travesties at The American Airlines Theatre, New York.

Harold Pinter

HAROLD PINTER was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008. (They were married in 1980).

After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama, he worked as an actor under the stage name David Baron. Following his success as a playwright, he continued to act under his own name, on stage and screen. He last acted in 2006 when he appeared in Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson.

He wrote twenty-nine plays including The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, The Caretaker, The Collection, The Lover, The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man’s Land, Betrayal, ,A Kind of Alaska, One For The Road, The New World Order, Moonlight and Ashes to Ashes. Sketches include The Black and White, Request Stop, That’s your Trouble, Night, Precisely, Apart From That and the recently rediscovered, Umbrellas.

He directed twenty-seven theatre productions, including James Joyce's Exiles, David Mamet's Oleanna, seven plays by Simon Gray (one of which was Butley in 1971 which he directed the film of three years later) and many of his own plays including his last, Celebration, paired with his first, The Room at The Almeida Theatre, London in the spring of 2000.

He wrote twenty-one screenplays including The Pumpkin Eater, The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman and Sleuth.

In 2005 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Other awards include the Companion of Honour for services to Literature, the Legion D’Honneur, the European Theatre Prize the Laurence Olivier Award and the Moliere D'Honneur for lifetime achievement. In 1999 he was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. Harold Pinter was awarded eighteen honorary degrees.